It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.